Feeling the cold seep in through her chrysalis Moon squeezes her eyes tighter shut, it was the first time her 'parents' had left her. She was cold and alone she quietly cried as the wind picked up and blustered against the sturdy gem chrysalis. Curling up she shuddered her thoughts spiraling out of control she couldn't imagine why they would leave her. They were always there from what she could remember, always keeping her warm, telling her stories, making her giggle with jokes and such. Why would they leave? Was, was it something she thought? These things swirled in her mind as Moon slowly plummeted into despair, something she would probably forget later on but was a huge impact on her now. Almost hysterical and anxious she soon passed into a trance thinking the bad over and over till she soon past out from exhaustion.

Within her jumbled dreams a familiar voice came to her singing a sweet song one her 'parents' sang to her when she was feeling afraid. Smiling she unconsciously snuggled to the warmth pressed to her chrysalis, melodic words reverberating across the Gem surface she sighed. "Please don't weep my dear, this is just how it must be, remember we love you as if you were our own. I hope you can understand this our little moon, please stay strong, you will find strong companions and allies, you will not need us anymore darling moon. Stay safe and let your inner light show you the way." With that they were gone, leaving Moon to her sweet dreams, their last parting gift a single rose laid by her chrysalis and the wish she would stay safe and become strong.

Waking she felt like she had missed something important but she also didn't feel sad anymore. What she did feel was the strongest urge she had ever felt, one that told her it was 'time', time to be free to see the outside and to experience a new 'life'. Pushing her tawny muscles strained against her Gem confines she attempted to break through, with all her might all she could do with that shove was bruise her back and scratch the inside of with her claws. {Damn this isn't working} She thought to herself trying to think of a better way to scrape herself out of here... {scrape...}scrape that was a nice thought, using her amethyst horn nubs she ran them along the inside of the chrysalis trying to find weak points, at the same time trying to find a good foothold within.

After what had seemed like hours, though was only a few minutes, she found what she was looking for. Digging deep she stuck her claws into the crevasse and pushed with all her might, locking her horn nubs into a divot Moon pushed and even rammed the same spot over and over making quite the ruckus as she did so. Crack by crack her gem confines gave way, muscles aching and neck sore she, with one last valiant effort slammed into the degrading spot. Pieces of Gem splintered and sprayed outward as her chrysalis shattered from the impact, sending poor Moon careening from her forward thrust. Curling instinctual into a ball she tumbled head over tail till she abruptly came to a stop on something warm and furry. Hearing an omphf she slowly opens her eyes, fluttering because of the light she can barely make out the figure that had made the noise as well as she had promptly landed on her back and was staring through her long tail but that's besides the point. XD

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It had been at least a week since that fateful day when he'd been attacked by the white doe. He was lying in Arkrael's den for most of the time so he could heal but now he felt that he could go out and do a little work without permanently damaging his leg. So long as he kept the weight off of it. The white pup rose to his paws, golden eyes turning briefly to look at his lame limb. It didn't pain him too much now. The only thing that was too unsettling was his now black limbs. From the doe's shadows he had become permanently stained and was no longer completely white. A strange thing but it was nothing that hurt so Zariel didn't much care.

So, he set off with his leg lifted from the ground. The growing pup hobbled along, set on doing a small lap about the den before returning. He shouldn't be out too long and his Mama Arkrael shouldn't worry. So long as she was happy then he was happy for seeing her upset released the bad feelings from him.

As he limped along the wolf noticed something strange in his path. A new stone that wasn't there before. He would know. He had every inch of this territory plus some memorized to a T. So, what was this thing? A new gembound? Yes. He remembered seeing another chrysalis that was a different color but similar to this. Perhaps he would meet a new creature today. Mama Arkrael would be pleased and he was too. One could tell that he was by the one-second long upwards twitch of the corner of his mouth. Other than that, he did nothing. The white and black dog only stood and stared impassively at the gemstone.

Until the creature suddenly burst out and fell right onto him.

The dog said absolutely nothing as he was barreled over and had the newborn fall right on top of him. The white dog simply stared upwards at the ceiling with his blank eyes. After a full minute he finally registered that his leg was throbbing from the sudden impact so he said, "Ouch." Not loud. Not with any sort of inflection in his voice either. It was another minute before he said at the heavy weight in his gut, "Newborn-white-wolf is sitting on Zariel. The newborn-white-wolf is heavy." In his same monotone but he finally fell silent. He didn't move anymore and still stared straight up at the ceiling.

What a great introduction.

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